Youngsters at Closeburn School are getting an extra, unscheduled, day off as their school has been closed today due to a heating failure.
It is expected to reopen tomorrow.
School stays closed
PUPILS and teachers across the region go back to the classroom today after the October break . . . all except at one local primary.
Ode to munitions girls
‘IF’ is the title of this poem, written to mark the end of WWI munitions work at Mossband in Gretna in 1919. The only clue to the author are the initials DME, but it’s dedicated to the ‘girls of the cordite laboratory, Mossband. It goes:
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